On Jun 6, 8:06*am, wrote:
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- More and more industry is moving into Mississippi.
- Mississippi is not as ''broke'' as Mississippi used to be.
- When auto factories up North went broke and or closed
- down, there were/are the rust belts.
- I once read somewhere auto factories last about thirty years.
- Someday there will be a rust belt in Mississippi.
- Mississippi is or used to be mostly Agricultural,
- rust belts/closeing down of factories up North
- didn't hardly affect Mississippi at all.
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- Give me Agriculture any time!
- cuhulin *
Cuhulin,
For All of Mankinds Known Existance Agriculture has been
the mainstay of human industry {work} it is only in the last
200+ Years of the Industrial Age that Manufacturing has
occupied such a large portion of Mankind's Labor Effort.
Demographics | Ag 101 | Agriculture | US EPA
http://www.epa.gov/oecaagct/ag101/demographics.html
Presently less than 1% of Americans 'claim' Farming as
an Occupation; and about 2% actually Live on Farms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricul..._United_States
-imho- These Numbers should be at least 5% to insure
a 'strategic' reserve of Farms and Farmers for American
Agriculture Independence and the Security of Our Food
Supplies and Our Food Supply-Line.
NOTE - After the US Civil War in the 1870s about Half
(50%) of the US Population was Employed in Agriculture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricul...tes#Employment
Now in the 21st Century (2000s) less than a Million
US Workers are Employed Agriculture out of ~150 Million
which is 0.7% of the Total.
RESULT : Too Few Producers and Too Many Consumers.
Sad-Fact-But-True : There are more Criminals Locked-Up
in Prisons in the USA than there are Farmers.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_perce...on_are_farmers
A History of American Agriculture : Farmers and the Land
http://www.agclassroom.org/gan/timel...rmers_land.htm
Good Out-Line Time Line from the 17th to the 21st Centuries.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/StateFacts/US.htm
American Agriculture : Its Changing Significance
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oecon/chap8.htm
it nice to 'feel' the good earth beneath my feet
and the smell of fresh soil after a rain ~ RHF